Improvement in instruments for attaching buttons to fabrics



HERRMAN MAUCH,-' OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Letters Patent No. 83,193, dated October 20, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN INSTRUMENTS FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS 'IO FABRICS.

The Schedule referred to'in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all who-m it may concern 7 Be it known that I, HERRMAN Manon, of Providence, in the county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented 'an Improved Instrument for Setting and Olinching Buttons and Hooks and do hereby declare that'the following is a full and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement of a spring to open the jaws of the pincers, and also to hold the button or hook while the spurs of the same are being pressed through the leather or other material in which they are to, be inserted.

To enable those skilled-in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

The drawing,

Figure 1, showsa side view of the instrument;

Figure 2 a top view of the lower jaw; and

Figure 3 an end view of the die and punch.

Upon the upper jaw isplaced the sliding die 0, moving upon the punch E. The spring I operates upon the die 0, to produce the proper pressure upon the material into which the buttons are to be inserted. The die 0 is prevented from slipping off the punch E -by the spring, or any equivalent device, D. The spring B operates between the upper and lowerjaws, to force them apart, and by an end thrust, as the pincers are being closed, to hold the button or hook while its spurs are pressing through the leather or other material.

' Fig. 2 is a top view of the lower jaw, showing thespring B and orifice A, into which the button or hook is to be inserted, as shown in fig. 1.

The operation of the instrument is as follows: The

button is to be inserted into the opening in the lower jaw, as shown in fig. 1, and the material to which it is to'be secured placed between the jaws. Now, by bringing the handles of the instrument toward each other, the spurs of the button will be pressed through the material into the die 0. Then, as the die is pressed upwards against the spring F, the'punch E will clinch the spurs, thus fastening the button to the material very securely.

What -I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

- The arrangement ot a spring, B, with a side opening in the jaw, operating substantially as and for the 

